Overview
- He died on 25 January at a Delhi hospital, where he had been admitted in the days prior, aged 90.
- Reports differ on his final illness, with accounts citing a stroke, a brief illness, or a longer cancer battle.
- He served more than two decades as the BBC’s New Delhi/South Asia bureau chief, reporting on events from the 1971 Bangladesh war to the Ayodhya crisis.
- He wrote nine books and was honored with a British knighthood as well as India’s Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan.
- Tributes flowed from journalists, authors and political leaders, and he was cremated in Delhi on Monday.